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SVGO v0.2.1

SVG Optimizer is a Nodejs-based tool for optimizing SVG vector graphics files.

Why?

SVG files, especially exported from various editors, usually contains a lot of redundant and useless information such as editor metadata, comments, hidden elements, default or non-optimal values and other stuff that can be safely removed or converted without affecting SVG rendering result.

What it can do

SVGO has a plugin-based architecture, so almost every optimization is a separate plugin.

Today we have:

• [ > ] cleanup attributes from newlines, trailing and repeating spaces
• [ > ] remove doctype declaration
• [ > ] remove XML processing instructions
• [ > ] remove comments
• [ > ] remove <metadata>
• [ > ] remove editors namespaces, elements and attributes
• [ > ] remove empty attributes
• [ > ] remove hidden elements
• [ > ] remove empty Text elements
• [ > ] remove empty Container elements
• [ > ] remove viewBox attribute when possible
• [ > ] remove or cleanup enable-background attribute when possible
• [ > ] convert styles into attributes
• [ > ] convert colors (from rgb() to #rrggbb, from #rrggbb to #rgb)
• [ > ] convert Path data to relative, convert one segment to another, trim useless delimiters and much more
• [ > ] collapse multiple transforms into one, convert matrices to the short aliases and much more
• [ > ] remove unknown elements content and attributes, remove attrs with default values
• [ > ] remove unused namespaces declaration
• [ > ] remove unused and minify used IDs
• [ > ] round numeric values to the fixed precision, remove default 'px' units
• [ > ] move elements attributes to the existing group wrapper
• [ > ] move some group attributes to the content elements
• [ > ] collapse useless groups

Want to know how it works and how to write your own plugin? Of course you want to.

How to use

$ [sudo] npm install -g svgo

Usage:
  svgo [OPTIONS] [ARGS]

Options:
  -h, --help : Help
  -v, --version : Version
  -i INPUT, --input=INPUT : Input file, "-" for STDIN
  -s STRING, --string=STRING : Input SVG data string
  -f FOLDER, --folder=FOLDER : Input folder, optimize and rewrite all *.svg files
  -o OUTPUT, --output=OUTPUT : Output file (by default the same as the input), "-" for STDOUT
  -c CONFIG, --config=CONFIG : Local config file to extend default
  --disable=DISABLE : Disable plugin by name
  --enable=ENABLE : Enable plugin by name
  --datauri : Output as Data URI base64 string
  --pretty : Make SVG pretty printed

Arguments:
  INPUT : Alias to --input
  OUTPUT : Alias to --output

• with files:

    $ svgo test.svg
  

  or:

    $ svgo test.svg test.min.svg
  

• with STDIN / STDOUT:

    $ cat test.svg | svgo -i - -o - > test.min.svg
  

• with folder

    $ svgo -f ../path/to/folder/with/svg/files
  

• with strings:

    $ svgo -s '<svg version="1.1">test</svg>' -o test.min.svg
  

  or even with Data URI base64:

    $ svgo -s 'data:image/svg+xml;base64,…' -o test.min.svg
  

• with SVGZ:

  from .svgz to .svg:

    $ gunzip -c test.svgz | svgo -i - -o test.min.svg
  

  from .svg to .svgz:

    $ svgo test.svg -o - | gzip -cfq9 > test.svgz
  

• with GUI – svgo-gui

• as a Nodejs module – examples

• as a Grunt task – svgo-grunt

• as an OSX Folder Action – svgo-osx-folder-action

TODO

• v0.2.x

License and copyrights

This software is released under the terms of the MIT license.

Logo by Yegor Bolshakov.